Disko Bay is pleased to present This Much is True by Albert Elm, the artist’s second photobook following the widely praised What Sort of Life is This.

In this new publication, Elm brings together vivid snapshots and atmospheric, almost dreamlike landscapes to create a distinctive visual narrative shaped by a direct yet playful photographic language. Through these images, he reflects on life as he encounters it—both at home and while traveling—capturing a particular moment defined by his age, his circumstances, and the environments that surround him.

The photographs drift between distant geographies and everyday situations: icebergs, swimming pools, and deserts appear alongside scenes from across the globe. South Asian laborers in Dubai, a marble quarry in Carrara, and a complex system of industrial pipes outside Mumbai coexist with tourists photographing the Mona Lisa, graffiti on the separation barrier, and masked police officers in Copenhagen. These fragments come together to form a visual sequence that is at once disjointed and cohesive, suggesting a perspective that feels both global in scope and intimately personal.

Like many people of his generation, Elm moves through a world saturated with information, competing lifestyles, and constant distractions. His images arise from a desire to make sense of this layered reality and from an impulse to explore its outer limits. By treating the remarkable and the ordinary with equal attention, the book dissolves traditional hierarchies and presents the world as a continuous and evolving terrain. Elm’s quasi-documentary method acts as a personal archive of lived experience: he records what resonates in the moment and stores it for later contemplation. Much like a collector assembling stamps in an album, Elm accumulates visual traces until a picture of a world he can inhabit—and ultimately understand—begins to emerge.